In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
SALMAN RUSHDIEPerhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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